Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are not to spend your whole time trying to correct them

If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child.

Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

It’s a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I’ve ever heard.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.

Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.

Sure, I'd like a child of my own. I'd also like a laser pistol, that doesn't mean someone should give me one.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.